Need help creating a "Click absolutely ANYWHERE on this page" link for an HTML page with no content

#1 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

I'm not sure if this can even be done, but what prompts the question
is my desire to be able to create an "Uber Link" script/code of some
sort, such that even if the html page contains nothing but a
background image -or- a background color -- in other words, the page
has neither content nor placed images -- any click, ANYWHERE, will
launch the URL in your browser.

I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.

Thanks.

SL

#2 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

In article <1170888049.305499.93770@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups. com>,
"STILL LEARNING" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this can even be done, but what prompts the question
> is my desire to be able to create an "Uber Link" script/code of some
> sort, such that even if the html page contains nothing but a
> background image -or- a background color -- in other words, the page
> has neither content nor placed images -- any click, ANYWHERE, will
> launch the URL in your browser.
>
> I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
> I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
> entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.
>
> Thanks.
>
> SL

Don't think you can do this. A link must be associated with an object.
Usually that's text. If you did something like this, it would *NOT* go
over well with most visitors to your site.

Rethink your approach. This one isn't going to fly and if it did,
people won't like it.

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#3 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

Hello,

STILL LEARNING wrote:

> I'm not sure if this can even be done, but what prompts the question
> is my desire to be able to create an "Uber Link" script/code of some
> sort, such that even if the html page contains nothing but a
> background image -or- a background color -- in other words, the page
> has neither content nor placed images -- any click, ANYWHERE, will
> launch the URL in your browser.
>
> I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
> I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
> entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.

Can't image a good usecase for this, but feel free to enlighten me...

You could place a link (preferably with meaningful text for users
non-graphic browsers, i.e. where the user does not "click" or there is
not "entire page") on the page.

<a id="biglink" href="..">Let strange things happen</a>

Then apply the following CSS

#biglink {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
text-indent: -2000px; /* to move the text out of the visible area */
--

you'll also need

html, body {
height: 100%; /* or the height property above will not work */
margin: 0; /* to avoid scrollbars */
padding: 0;
--

HTH

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

#4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

STILL LEARNING said the following on 2/7/2007 5:40 PM:

[Followup-To set to comp.lang.javascript]

> I'm not sure if this can even be done, but what prompts the question
> is my desire to be able to create an "Uber Link" script/code of some
> sort, such that even if the html page contains nothing but a
> background image -or- a background color -- in other words, the page
> has neither content nor placed images -- any click, ANYWHERE, will
> launch the URL in your browser.
>
> I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
> I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
> entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.

<body onclick="goThere('someURL')">

function goThere(URL){
alert('This is going to be really ANNOYING');
document.location.href = URL;
--

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

#5 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

In article
<1170888049.305499.93770@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups. com>,
"STILL LEARNING" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote:

> I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
> I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
> entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.

What does paroled mean here? You can make a clear gif and set the
width and height of it in the css to 100% and it can be a link.
Is this parolling?

--
dorayme

#6 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

On Feb 7, 4:42 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> You can make a clear gif and set the width and height of it in the
> css to 100% and it can be a link.

Using which Tags? (sorry, I don't do much CSS and I don't understand
how this is different from simply creating a graphic that links)

SL

#7 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

In article
<1170899347.918264.86020@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups. com>,
"STILL LEARNING" <byte.this@usa.net> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 4:42 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > You can make a clear gif and set the width and height of it in the
> > css to 100% and it can be a link.
>
> Using which Tags? (sorry, I don't do much CSS and I don't understand
> how this is different from simply creating a graphic that links)

<http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/bigAsBigCanBe.html>

--
dorayme

#8 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

STILL LEARNING wrote:
> I'm not sure if this can even be done, but what prompts the question
> is my desire to be able to create an "Uber Link" script/code of some
> sort, such that even if the html page contains nothing but a
> background image -or- a background color -- in other words, the page
> has neither content nor placed images -- any click, ANYWHERE, will
> launch the URL in your browser.
>
> I realize I can make traditional text links and graphics links; what
> I'm looking for is to be paroled from these . . . and making the
> entire page, whether empty or not, one big CLICK.
>
> Thanks.
>
> SL
>

document.onclick=function () {
document.location.href="http://someurl.com"; --

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#9 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

On Feb 8, 6:36 am, pcx99 <x...@x.com> wrote:
>
> document.onclick=function () {
> document.location.href="http://someurl.com"; --

pcx99, forgive my ignorance but . . . what is this? Javascript? It's
quite elegant and I like it, but I'm not sure where it would go or if
it might be fussy (eg cross-browser compatible).

Very elegant, and this is easily the best solution -- both for
simplicity and size -- but only if it is not fussy. Could you
elaborate a bit? Does this go BEFORE the </HEAD> -or- AFTER the
<BODY> tag? Thank you pcx99.

SL'in

#10 (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 01:04 AM

Oh and, I forgot to add . . . this solution has got to work with
frames in IEx. I remember years ago when I designed a custom page
counter I had a devil of a time with Explorer's frames.

SL'in

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